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FILE--Charles K. Kao, right, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics and Father of Fibre Optics, and his wife Huang Meiyun attend a promotiona Stock Photo - Alamy
Hong Kong mourns passing of Nobel Prize winner and father of fibre optics, Charles Kao, 84 | South China Morning Post
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Sir Charles Kuen Kao. 4 November 1933—23 September 2018 | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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